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Laura Magnani, Interim Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco, testified before the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee on the issue of solitary confinement. Magnani speaks about the findings of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, the circumstances of women in solitary confinement, and argues that prolonged solitary […]

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“A Form of Torture”: Testimony of Laura Magnani on Solitary Confinement

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by Sal Rodriguez

September 8, 2011

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“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

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by Sal Rodriguez

August 17, 2011

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Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

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by Sal Rodriguez

July 19, 2011

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Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

July 14, 2011

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Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 9, 2011

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Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 6, 2011

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Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

June 7, 2011

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Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

May 31, 2011

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Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 26, 2011

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Prisoner with Mental Illness Locked in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

April 21, 2011

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ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

February 21, 2011

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“Smart on Crime” Coalition Declares “Isolated Confinement Is Overused and Harmful”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

February 10, 2011

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New Resources on Solitary Confinement

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 12, 2011

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Wilbert Rideau on Solitary Confinement: “The Zenith in Human Cruelty”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

December 18, 2010

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The Brutality of Supermax Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

December 17, 2010

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ACLU and Experts Slam Findings of Colorado DOC Report On Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella

December 4, 2010

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Massachusetts Prisoner Who Exposed Sex-for-Snitching Ring Sent to Solitary

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by James Ridgeway

November 18, 2010

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If You Build It, They Will Come: Obama Commits to Gitmo North

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

March 20, 2010

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ACLU Gets One Angola Prisoner Released from Solitary

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 26, 2010

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Another Prisoner With Mental Illness Dies in Isolation

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

September 21, 2010

Scott Sisters Case Wins National Attention

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

October 12, 2010

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“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

August 27, 2010

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Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics”

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 11, 2010

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Pennsylvania Legislators Hold Hearings on Solitary Confinement

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 5, 2010

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Another Suspicious Death in Maine State Prison’s Lockdown Unit

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by James Ridgeway

August 3, 2010

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Private Prison Giant GEO Faces Fallout from Texas Prison Riots

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

August 2, 2010

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Prison Heat: Hunger Strike Highlights Summer’s Deadly Toll on U.S. Inmates

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

July 26, 2010

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A Supermax Prisoner’s Film from Hell

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by James Ridgeway

July 15, 2010

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Louisiana Jail Locks Up Suicidal Prisoners in 3′ x 3′ Cages

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

July 9, 2010

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